Boundary by 2024 margin · Precinct returns · VEST · MIT Election Lab
People and households
Who lives here
Exact values for this place, its state, and the United States.
Race · ethnicity · ancestry
Communities and origins
GroupFoster CountyNorth DakotaUnited States
German38.7%34.5%12.5%
Norwegian28.6%20.3%—
Irish7.3%7.3%9.4%
English5.4%5.1%9.5%
Swedish3.6%3.2%—
Italian3.2%—4.8%
Scottish2.0%—1.3%
Polish1.7%1.6%2.2%
Bangladeshi1.4%——
Asian Indian0.2%0.2%1.4%
Mexican1.2%2.8%11.3%
Argentinean0.3%——
Hispanic or Latino counts residents of any race; the race groups count only their non-Hispanic residents, so the groups are mutually exclusive and sum to 100%. Expand a row to see ancestries reported within that group.
Age and life stage
Measure
Foster County
North Dakota
United States
Median age
43.4
36.4
39.1
Age 18–24
3.6%
11.1%
9.2%
Age 65 and older
24.1%
16.5%
17.2%
Household economy
Measure
Foster County
North Dakota
United States
Median household income
$87,831
$76,657
$84,427
Poverty rate
8.8%
10.8%
12.5%
Bachelor's degree or higher (25+)
28.5%
32.9%
35.6%
Languages at home
Measure
Foster County
North Dakota
United States
Speaks a non-English language at home
3.0%
6.7%
22.3%
Spanish
1.0%
2.3%
13.6%
Other Indo-European
1.5%
0.7%
2.0%
Religious landscape
Measure
Foster County
North Dakota
United States
Catholic
15.0%
21.1%
18.6%
Evangelical Protestant
24.4%
10.8%
16.5%
Unclaimed / not counted
50.1%
45.0%
51.5%
Mainline Protestant
10.5%
21.0%
5.2%
American Community Survey 2024 5-year (CVAP, income, age, poverty, education, language, race, ancestry) · presidential returns from MIT Election Lab through 2024 · 2020 U.S. Religion Census (ASARB) — congregational adherents; unclaimed is the residual not counted by congregations.
Foster County, North Dakota
Precinct data
Results by precinct
7 precincts · 1,703 votes
Precinct boundaries and identifiers are cycle-specific. This table does not join rows across years without a validated crosswalk.
Foster County precinct-level presidential election results for 2024
Precinct -11
335
1,326
42
1,703
19.7%
77.9%
R+58.2
Foster 29-01 Voting District01
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Foster 29-02 Voting District02
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Foster 29-03 Voting District03
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Foster 29-04 Voting District04
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Foster 29-05 Voting District05
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
Foster 29-06 Voting District06
0
0
0
0
—
—
Even
presidential history
Presidential margin, 1892–2024
Democratic minus Republican, by election
Presidential margin over time
Year
Margin (D minus R)
1892
−54.1%
1896
−20.2%
1900
−25.8%
1904
−45.8%
1908
−13.3%
1912
+12.4%
1916
+9.1%
1920
−60.5%
1924
−31.1%
1928
+1.8%
1932
+49.7%
1936
+43.8%
1940
+13.1%
1944
+10.5%
1948
+7.2%
1952
−28.7%
1956
−7.5%
1960
−6.7%
1964
+17.3%
1968
−10.4%
1972
−21.9%
1976
+1.2%
1980
−41.2%
1984
−29.7%
1988
−18.4%
1992
−12.3%
1996
−7.9%
2000
−40.0%
2004
−39.7%
2008
−13.7%
2012
−25.1%
2016
−52.0%
2020
−55.6%
2024
−58.2%
DemocraticRepublican
38 presidential elections
Third column names the leading third-party or independent finisher. Source · MIT Election Lab · ICPSR · VEST (precinct-level 2024). Swing · margin change from the prior cycle. vs U.S. · margin relative to the national result that year.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Other
Margin
Swing
vs U.S.
Total
R
19.7%Harris335
77.9%Trump1,326
1.8%Oliver31 +1
R+58.2
R+2.6
R+56.7
1,703
All 4 candidates in 2024 · 2 minor / independent
Donald J TrumpRepublican77.9%1,326
Kamala D HarrisDemocratic19.7%335
Chase OliverLibertarian1.8%31
OtherAll other candidates0.6%11
R
21.0%Biden373
76.6%Trump1,362
1.9%Jorgensen33
R+55.6
R+3.6
R+60.1
1,778
R
20.2%Clinton347
72.2%Trump1,241
5.6%Johnson96
R+52.0
R+26.9
R+54.1
1,719
R
36.1%Obama607
61.2%Romney1,030
2.7%
R+25.1
R+11.4
R+29.0
1,682
R
41.6%Obama687
55.4%McCain914
3.0%
R+13.7
D+25.9
R+21.0
1,651
R
29.3%Kerry518
69.0%Bush1,219
1.6%
R+39.7
D+0.4
R+37.2
1,766
R
27.2%Gore474
67.2%Bush1,172
2.6%Nader46
R+40.0
R+32.2
R+40.6
1,743
R
38.1%Clinton664
45.9%Dole801
15.2%Perot265
R+7.9
D+4.4
R+16.4
1,744
R
29.1%Clinton565
41.4%Bush803
28.7%Perot556
R+12.3
D+6.1
R+17.8
1,940
R
40.4%Dukakis837
58.8%Bush1,218
0.7%
R+18.4
D+11.3
R+10.7
2,070
R
34.6%Mondale765
64.2%Reagan1,422
1.2%
R+29.7
D+11.5
R+11.5
2,214
R
25.4%Carter586
66.6%Reagan1,534
7.9%
R+41.2
R+42.3
R+31.4
2,303
D
49.8%Carter1,147
48.6%Ford1,120
1.6%
D+1.2
D+23.1
R+0.9
2,305
R
38.4%McGovern861
60.3%Nixon1,352
1.3%
R+21.9
R+11.5
D+1.3
2,243
R
41.9%Humphrey897
52.3%Nixon1,119
5.8%
R+10.4
R+27.7
R+9.7
2,139
D
58.6%Johnson1,315
41.3%Goldwater927
0.1%
D+17.3
D+24.0
R+5.3
2,244
R
46.7%Kennedy1,182
53.3%Nixon1,351
0.0%
R+6.7
D+0.8
R+6.8
2,533
R
46.1%Stevenson1,062
53.5%Eisenhower1,234
0.4%
R+7.5
D+21.2
D+7.9
2,306
R
35.5%Stevenson862
64.2%Eisenhower1,558
0.3%
R+28.7
R+35.9
R+17.9
2,428
D
52.0%Truman1,089
44.8%Dewey938
3.2%
D+7.2
R+3.3
D+2.7
2,093
D
54.9%Roosevelt1,102
44.4%Dewey891
0.7%
D+10.5
R+2.6
D+3.0
2,007
D
56.3%Roosevelt1,446
43.2%Willkie1,109
0.5%
D+13.1
R+30.7
D+3.2
2,567
D
68.6%Roosevelt1,894
24.8%Landon685
6.5%
D+43.8
R+5.9
D+19.6
2,759
D
74.4%Roosevelt1,838
24.6%Hoover609
1.0%
D+49.7
D+48.0
D+31.9
2,471
D
50.8%Smith1,178
49.0%Hoover1,137
0.3%
D+1.8
D+32.8
D+19.2
2,321
R
14.0%Davis287
45.1%Coolidge922
40.8%La Follette833
R+31.1
D+29.4
R+5.9
2,043
R
18.5%Cox371
79.0%Harding1,583
2.5%
R+60.5
R+69.6
R+34.3
2,004
D
53.6%Wilson662
44.5%Hughes549
1.9%
D+9.1
R+3.3
D+6.0
1,235
D
42.4%Wilson403
30.0%Taft285
27.7%
D+12.4
D+25.7
R+7.1
951
R
42.7%Bryan434
56.0%Taft569
1.3%
R+13.3
D+32.5
R+3.7
1,016
R
25.9%Parker223
71.7%Roosevelt618
2.4%
R+45.8
R+20.0
R+26.2
862
R
35.7%Bryan241
61.5%McKinley415
2.8%
R+25.8
R+5.6
R+18.2
675
R
39.6%Bryan143
59.8%McKinley216
0.6%
R+20.2
D+33.9
R+14.1
361
R
0.0%Cleveland0
54.1%Harrison192
45.9%
R+54.1
—
R+55.7
355
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Congressional elections · 3 Senate races
U.S. Senate
Source · MIT Election Lab (MEDSL), Senate. CC-BY 4.0.
Year
Won
Democratic
Republican
Total
2024
R
24.2%408
75.8%1,279
1,687
2022
R
15.7%198
63.4%798
1,259
2018
R
35.9%588
64.1%1,052
1,640
domestic migration
Who moves in and out
Net migration over time, and who arrivals are — where they came from and what those places vote
−61 net domestic migration · 2025
20112025
Net −241 over 2011–2025 · gain loss
Arrivals reported $78,040 in average income, against $102,237 for residents who stayed — 24% lower. (IRS SOI, 2022–23)
Migration is one input to a place’s political change, not its cause — a shift can also come from residents changing their minds, generational turnover, or turnout. These figures describe the places people moved between; they do not measure how any mover voted.
Domestic migration in Foster County, ND in Foster County, ND: net domestic migration by year
Year
Net domestic migration
2011
+6
2012
+46
2013
−16
2014
−14
2015
−7
2016
−9
2017
−47
2018
−46
2019
−1
2021
−10
2022
+24
2023
−67
2024
−39
2025
−61
Foster County's small, rural population has delivered Republican presidential margins exceeding 55 points in recent cycles, reflecting the broader consolidation of agrarian Great Plains counties around a single party over the past two decades.
Across the recorded series it reached a Democratic high of 49.7 points in 1932 and a Republican high of 60.5 points in 1920. Between 2020 and 2024 the county moved 2.6 points toward the Republican candidate; the 2024 margin was 58.2 points.
A population of 3,358, a 93% non-Hispanic-white share, and a median household income of $87,831 describe the county. The county's voting pattern over the last decade is most similar to that of Bottineau County and LaMoure County.
Akashic
Political twins — counties
The counties whose fingerprint — 2000–2024 trajectory, demographics, ancestry, religion — sits closest to this one, and why.
Twin score (0–100) = weighted cosine between tier-standardized fingerprints: presidential margins 2000–2024 with 12-yr trend and elasticity, ACS income, age, education, population and race, top reported ancestries, and religious adherence — chips name the closest-shared dimensions and the widest gap. Re-weight the groups in the twins explorer.
In 2024, Foster County, North Dakota voted Republican by 58.2 points (R+58.2), carried by the Republican candidate. Out of 1,703 votes cast, 335 went Democratic and 1,326 went Republican.
When did Foster County, North Dakota last vote Democratic?
The most recent presidential election in which Foster County, North Dakota voted Democratic was 1976.
How many people live in Foster County, North Dakota?
Foster County, North Dakota has a population of 3,358 according to the 2024 American Community Survey 5-year estimates from the US Census Bureau.
What is the median household income in Foster County, North Dakota?
Median household income in Foster County, North Dakota is $87,831 — above the national median of $80,734. The North Dakota state median is $76,657.
What is the political history of Foster County, North Dakota?
Akashic tracks 38 presidential elections in Foster County, North Dakota from 1876 to 2024. Of those, 10 went Democratic and 24 went Republican.
